Thanksgiving !

We are blessed to have My Uncle John, Aunt Sharon, & Cousin Amber from Anchorage, Alaska visiting us for Thanksgiving. I took the week off work to spend with them and to kinda of catch up on stuff at home. Monday I started and finished a project that I have been putting off for close to a year and a half. A family friend of ours gave us a handmade photo album with lots of frills and lace all hand stitched on. I have been meaning to put all of our wedding/ wedding shower cards in them so I finally did it. It was nice getting a chance to look at them again and read notes from old friends. I cut the cards so that the front and note from the inside could be seen. Check out the pics below.







Tuesday I spent an afternoon of fun Shopping at Chandler Mall with Amber, Sharon, & Helen (Sharon's Mom).

Today brings a much needed cleaning and organizing day at home.

Thanksgiving we get to have two thanksgiving dinners the first one at 1 and the second a few hours later around 6 ish much turkey, pie, & family fun will be had by all!

Finally who could break the tradition of black friday shopping at 3 am at Walmart!!!
What a great week this is!!!

Complete list of free stuff!!!

Due to possible conflict with election laws in various states, most are not requiring proof of voting. The free offers:

•Coffee. Starbucks expects to hand out "hundreds of thousands" of free 12-ounce drip coffees (valued at about $1.75 each), says spokeswoman Jenny McCabe. "If everyone who votes comes in for a free cup of coffee, we'll have some lines," she says.

•Doughnuts. Some 85 of Krispy Kreme's 231 locations in the U.S. will hand out star-shaped, red-white-and-blue sprinkled doughnuts "while supplies last," says spokesperson Dana Hughens. The chain will give out about 200,000 doughnuts valued at 99 cents each. "People are definitely talking about the brand as a result of this," she says.

•Ice cream. Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. in each time zone, Ben & Jerry's ice cream shops will hand out single-scoop ice cream cones (a $3.40 value). "What better way to encourage people to be politically active than to give away free ice cream?" asks spokeswoman Liz Brenna.

•Sandwiches. In a local market promotion, several hundred of the nation's 1,400 Chick-fil-A stores will hand out $2.70 chicken sandwiches to adults who show proof that they voted, says spokesman Jerry Johnston.

•Phone calls. Credo Mobile, a wireless company that donates money to progressive causes for calls its customers make, will offer free outbound calls to current customers during polling hours in their states. The cost could be about $250,000, says spokeswoman Becky Bond.

•Discount haircuts. Then, there's Cristophe Schatteman, a top hair stylist known for giving former president Bill Clinton a $200 haircut on Air Force One. His salons in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Beverly Hills and Orange County, Calif., will offer all services — including haircuts — at half price today. A $500 haircut from Cristophe will go for $250.

Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Wow! I just keep finding more stuff that is free today. Ben & Jerry's is giving away free scoops of ice cream from 5-8 pm tonight. for those of you in Mesa there is one at Fiesta Mall.

Vote

Tomorrow is Election day don't forget to vote! After you vote you can go get a free tall brewed cup of coffee at Starbucks!!! So Join me in voting and free coffee tomorrow!

Pumpkins

Some of you may know that I have a secret love for Mr. Potato Head. When I found these Mr. Potato Head Pumpkin Kits I had to have them. I got the Princess and the Pirate, they had others but i figured two was enough and liked these the best. Sadly I can't find the Princess' wand I must have dropped it somewhere between church where I put them together (during pumpkin game night at youth) and home.

New phone

So my wonderful wife Nicholle finally agreed that I need an iPhone! And as I was browsing the app store I found a blog writing app and decided to share my joy with all of our readers.

When will they ever finish?

So looking back at my blog i announced in July that we were getting a new built in gas grill by the pool. Well guess what its still not finished. Welcome to October and now finally below 100 degrees and they are finally starting to make some real progress. I was hoping to grill down there and have a swim party but alas we only have about 3 1/2 more weeks of pleasant swimming weather here. I suppose we could make it a hot tub party. Apparently our pool is heated but its never warm enough for me to want to go in during the winter. Anyways the reason I brought this up is I took some sweet photos from my balcony of these guys way up in the air installing some kind of shade screen over the grilling area. There is also a guy down there putting tile on the table tops. I hope the guy doesn't fall he doesn't appear to be wearing any kind of safety harness he is just hangng out on the top of this beam.